The Lying Game is about two girls: Sutton Mercer and Emma Paxton. Two girls who are long-lost twin sisters. It starts out with Emma seeing a video that features her twin and automatically, Emma wants to contact Sutton to see if they had the same birthday, or even the same mother. Sutton replies back, and the two decide to meet in Tuscon, Arizona, Sutton's home.
When Emma arrives, Sutton is nowhere to be found, but Sutton's friends find Emma and kidnap her to a party. Emma, realizing she is being mistaken for her twin, decides to play the role for a night, just to see what Sutton's life is really like. After a great night of partying, Emma waits in Sutton's room for her twin to arrive. But Sutton never does.
**Minor Spolier**
The next morning, Laurel is about to drive "Sutton" (who is really Emma) to school, when a note is found, saying: "Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along . . . or you next." And then, Emma is thrown into the high class world that is Sutton's life.
She has to try and discover who has killed her twin, all the while maintaining her role as Sutton. Emma soon discovers that her twin has been up to some nasty trouble, creating a club known as "The Lying Game." The Lying Game is a bunch of cruel pranks that the four club members: Charlotte Chamberlain, Madeline Vega, Laurel Mercer, and, of course, Sutton Mercer.
Along for the ride is Ethan Landry, a moody, distant loner like Emma (who seems to be falling for him); Laurel, Sutton's occasionally snobby, but mostly desperate to be in Sutton's club sister.
And then there are Charlotte: a friend that has a thing for Sutton's boyfriend, and might have had enough incentive to kill Sutton; Madeline: a pretty ballerina that is more than meets the eye.
And then, there are the "Twitter Twins": Gabriella and Lilianna Fiorello (Gabby and Lili), who are even more desperate than Laurel to get into Sutton's exclusive club.
At the end, nothing is resolved. So of course, this is going to be a series. But it was so good, I can't wait for the next book in the series: Never Have I Ever.
This book was especially great because it was relatable to a teenager like me. It had a lot of modern references, and it was easy to understand. It also sounded like a teenager talking: they weren't throwing cuss words around, but they didn't NOT cuss...
Overall: 5 stars. I'd recommend this book to anyone who is into mystery, drama, romance...any sort of Sara Shepard novel. Anyone who liked the Pretty Little Liars books will love this one, if not more than the PLL series.
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Adam Windsor
The series as a whole may or may not ultimately turn out to rather too long for its own good (there seem to be quite a few books)
Reviewed in Australia on March 5, 2018
